Post by pavel on Jan 16, 2016 0:29:28 GMT -6
Two astronauts aborted their spacewalk Friday and hurried back into the International Space Station after water leaked into one of the men's helmets in a scary repeat of a near-drowning 2½ years ago.
The trouble cropped up after the astronauts — including Britain's 1st spacewalker — successfully restored full power to the space station.
NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra took everyone by surprise when he reported a small water bubble and then a film of water inside his helmet. Mindful of another spacewalker's close call in 2013, Mission Control terminated the planned six-hour spacewalk at the four-hour mark. It turns out Kopra was wearing the same spacesuit involved in the earlier incident.
"So far, I'm OK," Kopra assured everyone. Later, he said the water bubble was 4 inches long and getting thicker.
Read more: www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sns-bc-us-sci--space-station-20160115-story.html#nt=outfit
The trouble cropped up after the astronauts — including Britain's 1st spacewalker — successfully restored full power to the space station.
NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra took everyone by surprise when he reported a small water bubble and then a film of water inside his helmet. Mindful of another spacewalker's close call in 2013, Mission Control terminated the planned six-hour spacewalk at the four-hour mark. It turns out Kopra was wearing the same spacesuit involved in the earlier incident.
"So far, I'm OK," Kopra assured everyone. Later, he said the water bubble was 4 inches long and getting thicker.
Read more: www.sun-sentinel.com/news/sns-bc-us-sci--space-station-20160115-story.html#nt=outfit
